Juvenile Spondyloarthritis in the CARRA Registry: High Biologic Use, Low Prevalence of HLA-B27, and Equal Sex Representation in Sacroiliitis

To describe characteristics of children with enthesitis-related arthritis (ERA) and juvenile psoriatic arthritis (JPsA) enrolled in the Childhood Arthritis and Rheumatology Research Alliance (CARRA) Registry. All children with ERA and JPsA were identified. Demographics, clinical characteristics, and...

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Published in:Arthritis care & research (2010) 2020-12
Main Authors: Rumsey, Dax G, Lougee, Aimee, Matsouaka, Roland, Collier, David H, Schanberg, Laura E, Schenfeld, Jennifer, Shiff, Natalie J, Stoll, Matthew L, Stryker, Scott, Weiss, Pamela F, Beukelman, Timothy
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Summary:To describe characteristics of children with enthesitis-related arthritis (ERA) and juvenile psoriatic arthritis (JPsA) enrolled in the Childhood Arthritis and Rheumatology Research Alliance (CARRA) Registry. All children with ERA and JPsA were identified. Demographics, clinical characteristics, and treatments were described. Those with and without sacroiliitis were compared. In those with sacroiliitis, the first visit with clinically active sacroiliitis (which came first in 72% of cases) was compared to the first visit without. Nine hundred two children with ERA or JPsA were identified. Children with ERA were older at diagnosis (10.8 vs. 8.2 years, p
ISSN:2151-4658